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Rameau : Daphnis & Eglé / La Naissance d’Osiris
Two works that have rarely seen the light of day. Setting them alongside Rameau’s tragédies lyriques one might be tempted to dismiss them as flimsy entertainments but they reveal a world full of charm, humanity, sensuality, and grace. These are not pieces written for the opera houses of Paris but fo...
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Opéra in three acts
Music & libretto by Richard Wagner - Paris version (1842)
Paris in summer 1841 : during a few weeks, richard Wagner influenced by Romantic Opera, composes Der fliegende Holländer, which he will consider as the first opera worthy of his quill. The version written in the French ca...
The Musketeers at the Convent
Opérette in 3 acts by Louis Varney
Libretto by Jules Prével & Paul Ferrier adapted by Jérôme Deschamps
based on a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont entitled "L'habit ne fait pas le moine"
Created in Paris, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, on March 1880
"Musketeers! In a convent!", Residents not that ho...
The ROYAL CONCERT OF THE NIGHT
Ensemble Correspondances, with Sébastien DAUCE (organ, harpsichord and direction), performs the Royal Concert of the Night, based on "Royal Ballet of the Nuict, danced by his Majesty on February 23, 1653", who lives for the first time Louis XIV appear as Sun King.
Concert recorded on November 30,...
Aston Villa, the 20th anniversary concert
This group from the Paris suburbs hits the road slowly but surely since 1994.Their incantatory rock made them one of the most unique band of the French scene. After two studio albums, "Bonne Nouvelle" and "Extraversion" and a live recording, Aston Villa was awarded « Discovery of the Year » by the p...
Cromwell, or the conspirators (Victor Hugo)
The Western comes to 17th century England in the form of a disjointed, modern and unexpected adaptation of a rarely performed Victor Hugo play.
London. Between the sumptuous Westminster Palace, freshly usurped from King Charles I by the regicide Cromwell, and the sinister Three Cranes Tavern, a grou...
JORDI SAVALL : Balkans, the land of Honey and Blood
As part of the 9th Music and History Festival for intercultural dialogue, under the direction of Jordi SAVALL, Hespèrion XXI and musicians and singers from Southern Europe revisit the musical heritage of the Balkans with a program built around the cycles of life.
With notably the singers Gürsoy D...
JORDI SAVALL : FROM EAST TO WEST, tribute to Syria
The 9th Fontfroide Festival directed by Jordi Savall at the Abbaye de Fontfroide ,“Music and History for an Intercultural Dialogue”. Exceptional concerts and privileged moments of emotion and conversation with musicians from all around the world.
ORIENT & OCCIDENT, Concert homage t...
MARCUS (portrait of Marcus Miller)
Beyond its autobiographical dimension, this film is the story of a young man who has forced his destiny to live his dream and become one of the greatest jazzmen. At an age when most kids focus on their A level, Marcus Miller was already a prodigy and a well known session musician. Before his 30s he ...
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book VII
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
